Stephen Davis is the Managing Partner at Banneker Partners and has been an active investor in technology companies since 2000. Prior to Banneker, Mr. Davis co-founded Vista Equity Partners, was a Vice President at Credit Suisse First Boston and practiced mergers and acquisitions and securities law in New York with Debevoise & Plimpton and Kirkland & Ellis.
Mr. Davis has sat on the boards of numerous software companies including Applied Systems, Ventyx, Petroleum Place, IQMS, Genesys, and Ancestry.com, and currently sits on the board of EverAg, Fluence and LINQ. Mr. Davis is also on the Board of Trustees of Carleton College, and formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Glide Foundation and the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California.
Mr. Davis graduated from Carleton College and has a JD and MBA from Columbia University. He and his wife Jill Cowan have three children.